The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for Fast On-Device Agents [8d] [hn]
• Custom server to revive neato bots [8d] [hn]
• A new model for open source: closed to pull requests, open to remix [8d] [hn]
• AB Fab – On Anthony Burgess [8d] [hn]
• Problems with the Rust Language [8d] [hn]
• Show HN: Ito – Build Terminal UIs in Lua [8d] [hn]
• Tiny Little Office [8d] [hn]
• Sigsaly: Churchill's top secret hotline to the President [8d] [hn]
• Orbital Angular Momentum of Light [8d] [hn]
• We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers [8d] [hn]
• OpenCode 2.0 [8d] [hn]
• Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010 [8d] [hn]
• Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke [8d] [hn]
• Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved [8d] [hn]
• Casey Newton and John Gruber Slink Back to X [8d] [hn]
• Fancy Curl Sites [8d] [hn]
• Things to know if you get cancer in 2026 [8d] [hn]
• Back to School, in Gaza [8d] [hn]
• Private equity ownership affects dental practices [8d] [hn]
• Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men [8d] [hn]
• Hatching (Heraldry) [9d] [hn]
• I Electrified My Push Scooter with a Power Drill [9d] [hn]
• Each step of decoding a PNG (2022) [9d] [hn]
• How the Military Will Hack the Election [9d] [hn]
• Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland [9d] [hn]
• "I'm Not Going to Have Blood on My Hands" [9d] [hn]
• Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote [9d] [hn]
• Ultramarine 1 Flash: Frontier Model 100X Cheaper [9d] [hn]
• Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free [9d] [hn]
• Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack [9d] [hn]
• Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks [9d] [hn]
• America Didn't Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It [9d] [hn]
• Neckbeard – a DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent [9d] [hn]
• AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics [9d] [hn]
• OpenAI claims employee sent secret device information to Apple [9d] [hn]
• Sally Rooney can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support [9d] [hn]
• US report details extent of 'devastating' dating-app scams [9d] [hn]
• Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox [9d] [hn]
• Types of types: Haskell's Kind system [9d] [hn]
• Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series [9d] [hn]
• Has AI Tells [9d] [hn]
• Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges [9d] [hn]
• I Deleted 168,000 Lines of Comments. My AI Agent Didn't Notice [9d] [hn]
• PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 2 [9d] [hn]
• The Emperor Pelican Has No Clothes [9d] [hn]
• Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27 [9d] [hn]
• Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts [9d] [hn]
• ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program [9d] [hn]
• Amsterdam police confisquates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request [9d] [hn]
• Compiler bootstrapping depends on more than you might think [9d] [hn]
• Americans' Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years [9d] [hn]
• Almost every dumbphone worth knowing about [9d] [hn]
• Shit Flow Diagram [9d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain [9d] [hn]
• Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work [9d] [hn]
• Submarine Cable Resilience [9d] [hn]
• Why are all these data companies buying internal data? [9d] [hn]
• Olympus: Correcting the power dynamic of code (2024) [9d] [hn]
• California is building a $400M shield for Yosemite's most dangerous highway [9d] [hn]
• Passkeys Are Not a Trap [9d] [hn]
• 0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch [9d] [hn]
• I built the RealWorld app in Lean 4 [9d] [hn]
• Show HN: Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents [9d] [hn]
• Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs [9d] [hn]
• AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary [9d] [hn]
• Zuckerberg's new toy is a parasite. Please don't fall for it [9d] [hn]
• Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? [9d] [hn]
• ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam [9d] [hn]
• Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter [9d] [hn]
• Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI [9d] [hn]
• Scientists Are Teaching Birds to Sing Lost Songs [9d] [hn]
• Details Leak from Meeting Where Weiss's 'Handpicked' Editor Threatened CBS Staff [9d] [hn]
• Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors [9d] [hn]
• RIP Eric Binnion [9d] [hn]
• Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon [9d] [hn]
• CPI-U rises 7.2% annualized in September (3.7% YoY) [9d] [hn]
• Men with Queer Nerves: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine [9d] [hn]
• The Aaronson Oracle [9d] [hn]
• Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256 [9d] [hn]
• Smart people don't think others are stupid [9d] [hn]